Word: janee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fathers (Twentieth Century-Fox). The 45 members of the Spear and Gun Club draw lots to decide which of them is to make a home for Cinemoppet Jane Withers. Jane, chunkily healthful, insufferably precocious, tries to smuggle a chimpanzee into Manhattan, demurs at singing and dancing lessons, straightens out another puppy love life. Redeeming feature: the dancing Hartmans, disguised as The Marvelous McCoys, adding ventriloquism to their repertory...
...masterly work of Frederick Leicester who, besides staging the play, plays the principal role. When there is so perfect a coincidence of character and actor, no criticism is called for. Peggy Simpson in the part of the youngest of the corrosive trio is impish and irreverent to perfection; Jane Sterling makes an excellent middle sister, a beautiful, exuberant animal; and Helen Trenholme does more than her share as the eldest, who, though by no means languorous, is calm enough to fall in love with a bashful musician, and charming enough to carry him off. Aubrey Mather is equally flawless...
...lion. To Hollywood, II Duce's son was the unattractive symbol of a repressive political system. To Rome, Director Mamoulian, despite his Hollywood background, was an artist and a good one. Film Tsar Luigi Freddi entertained him at his home, where no Hollywoodman has been before. Princess Jane San Faustino (née Jane Campbell of Manhattan) introduced him to Crown Prince Umberto at a smart midnight party. Admirers brought him gifts-art objects, rare books, an Eleonora Duse autograph. Naive-looking, bespectacled Mamoulian finally fled, dazzled, to restful Capri...
...stage show with Jane Froman, Stoopnagle and Bud, Bob Ripa, and Borah Minevitch's Harmonica Rascals is excellent...
...also casting and stage director of several other Aldrich shows besides assisting in presenting "Twelfth Night" with Jane Cowl, and "Springtime For Henry." He has worked with summer theatres in Millbrook, N. J. and Tamworth...